How to Use hip-hop in a Sentence

hip-hop

noun

• The main mantra for hip-hop was what?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
• But for me, this is what hip-hop is.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
• That’s punk, that’s rock & roll, that’s hip-hop.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
• People look at hip-hop like a sport.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026
• There are four pillars of hip-hop.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
• There were no hip-hop managers.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 6 Sep. 2025
• So evolving with hip-hop, right?
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
• That era of the hip-hop mogul is largely gone.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• Hot 97 gave me the mic and hip-hop gave me a voice.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
• There’s been talk about the role of battling in hip-hop.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026
• By and large, rap, hip-hop is a spoken-word art.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
• Hell, Greg Tate been told us hip-hop was dead.
  — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
• Sampling is a Black art that bred hip-hop.
  — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• Bambaataa’s story goes back to the dawn of hip-hop.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
• For decades, Shakur's unsolved killing has gripped hip-hop fans.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
• This is really good for hip-hop.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
• There’s some post-Drake rap’n’b, some stock radio hip-hop.
  — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
• So, will hip-hop be fine without Drake for the next year or two?
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
• It's been a long time since anyone blamed hip-hop for being too woke.
  — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
• In lieu of a red carpet, guests walked a three-lane track to a playlist of hip-hop hits.
  — Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 25 July 2024
• To close out his set, though, BigX went back to his hip-hop roots.
  — Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
• But hip-hop is 50 years old now, so old people like hip-hop too.
  — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• In hip-hop, as in life, women are the past, the present and the future.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• Over the years, artists from punk to hip-hop have contributed tracks to the canon.
  — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
• These lyrics were made famous by hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
  — Waylon Barnes, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• There’s a couple hip-hop groups on the label but bands are a very in depth process.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
• But there’s also a punk scene and an art scene and a hip-hop scene that’s amazing.
  — Vulture, 9 June 2023
• The days of a few good men doing hip-hop, and doing hip-hop well, [have] passed.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• But insult records and revenge songs go back to well before hip-hop.
  — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
• The new track finds the hip-hop star singing over a soft instrumental.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2024